Work Life Integration Articles

'Is slow living the answer to attaining a fulfilled life?'

Consider an individual, tired of the rat race who leaves the city in pursuit of a more traditional existence. He eschews the latest technology and consumerist must-haves and stops to smell the roses. He rarely uses his cell phone or watches television and trips to the shopping mall for relaxation are things of the past. He grows his own food, possibly builds his own house and escapes the demands of modern consumerism. In short, he has slowed down and is joining the rising number of people who reject the modern world’s love affair with pace and pressure... read more

'Why is work/life balance so hard to achieve?'

Do you wonder why work/life balance appears to be so diffi cult to attain? Despite goal-setting and time management, your goal of having rewarding work and enriching personal experiences, never becomes a reality. Somehow work demands too much of you or personal commitments leave you questioning your career satisfaction. Moving seamlessly between work and play appears increasingly beyond our reach. I suggest that this is because the equation of work/life balance is fundamentally flawed...read more

How do you answer the question 'What do you do?'

How do you reply when this question is posed? It is a familiar enough question that often supposes an answer related to one’s state of employment. This highlights the ubiquitous nature of us seeing ourselves through what we do. Typical answers relate to one’s job title, employing organisation or profession. Other answers relate to past employment: ‘Oh I’m an unemployed electrician’, ‘I’m not working right now whilst I raise my children’. All these answers relate to some external criteria against which the answer is framed...read more

Are you living a balanced and fulfilled life or do you feel torn between work and the other roles you hold in your life?

Everyone wants to live a healthy and fulfilled life with a satisfying career, time for relationships and room for personal growth. Yet how do you achieve this when you feel torn between the demands of each of the roles you hold? How do you find time for work, personal relationships and time for reflection? At every turn, there are answers to how you can balance your life perfectly and seamlessly move between your various responsibilities. Life coaches, therapists, workshops and self-help books offer ways to achieve work-life balance. Organisations too have responded to the challenge and many now offer family-friendly policies to assist us in this balancing act. ...read more

Dare to be true

We all want to be happier, healthier and gain a greater sense of wellbeing. Yet how do we achieve this in our busy lives whilst other people have so many expectations of us and we are bombarded with so much advice on how to live? ...read more

Work Life Balance - Doing it right and avoiding the pitfalls.
(Jim Bird)

The demand for work-life-balance solutions by employees and managers is expanding at an unprecedented rate. As a result, work-life balance is an increasingly hot topic in boardrooms and government halls today. Over the coming decade it will be one of the most important issues that executives and human resource professionals will be expected to manage...read more

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